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Consider approving Resolution No. 2014-021 authorizing the creation of the North Texas Emergency Communications Center, Inc. as a Local Government Corporation; approving the form of Certificate of Formation and Bylaws for said Corporation; and take appropriate action.
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BACKGROUND:
For the last 2+ years, the Town of Addison and Cities of Carrollton, Coppell, and Farmers Branch ("the Cities") have been working together pursuant to a series of interlocal cooperation agreements to jointly purchase, install, maintain, and operate a new 900 megahertz, digital radio system for emergency communications for use by the Cities' police, fire, and EMS departments. Concurrently, after a joint study conducted by the Cities which has previously been presented to the City Councils of all four Cities, the Cities have been working cooperatively to consolidate their public safety dispatching operations into a single call center. One of the recommendations of the study on consolidated dispatching was to place the operation under the management of a separate organization jointly created by the Cities and controlled by the Cities through a board of directors consisting of the city managers of each of the Cities. To that end, the Cities entered into an interlocal cooperation agreement effective January 27, 2014, agreeing to move forward with creation of a local government corporation for constructing, developing, managing, and operating a public safety communications center and other joint projects as authorized by the Cities from time to time.
DISCUSSION:
Resolution No. 2014-021 authorizes the creation of a local government corporation to be known as the "North Texas Emergency Communications Center, Inc." ("NTECC) and approves the form of Certificate of Formation and Bylaws for the corporation. The resolution also provides for the appointment of the city manager to serve as an initial director to the NTECC board of directors.
The key provisions of the Certif...
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